An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 14. He argues that "in Mississippi, spatial configurations—the unique characteristics of a rural landscape—forged distinct human interactions, movements, and sites,"...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...New Lessons from an Old Exposure," American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 187, no. 11 (2013): 1178–85. Formal recognition required collective political intervention by coal miners themselves. Even as social and...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta to Piedmont Park on June 27, 1971. Linked still shot from footage of first Atlanta pride march, Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 1971. Video housed in The Walter J. Brown...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...worker experiences (12–13). Hatcher, Chas. F. Slave Depot advertisement, New Orleans, ca. 1861. Advertisement originally published in Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1861 (Gardner, 1861). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Kennedy, Jr.'s posters and artists' books memorialize and celebrate African American history and culture. His work, housed in the Kennedy & Sons Collection in Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...Now retired, he was president of Springfield Trades and Labor Council, a member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSME), and a union activist. He came...
Confederate headstone in American cemetery, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Brazil, 2010
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Polikoff Proposal," Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 1, no. 1 (Summer 2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v1/n1/4/. Yet, as Goetz poignantly maintains, de-concentrating poverty is not the same as altering the economic...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...America writ large: did the “Mississippi Plan” become the American way? Part 4: Dr. Crespino analyzes the role of the scapegoat metaphor of Mississippi as “innocent victim” in segregationist politics Part...